ullr

ullr is a little gem that consumes NOAA weather xml for a given lat/long, and returns a ruby object with 12 hour forecasts along with some sugar to let you know if any sugar will be falling from the sky.

• Grabs data that powers point forecast pages (http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.98886243884903&lon=-121.68182373046875&site=pdt&smap=1&unit=0&lg=en&FcstType=text)
• Returns object with access to forecasted start_time, name (i.e. This Evening), text (i.e. Mostly sunny, high near 19), snow boolean, high_temperature, low_temperature, wind_direction, wind_speeds (array of low,high), snow_estimate (array of low,high)

• iheartsnow = Ullr::Forecast.new(:lat => 43.98, :lon => -121.68)
• iheartsnow.get_noaa_forecast

rake test

• Add support for other data sources (weatherbug, wunderground etc)
• Some more integration tests

• happymapper

• gem 'ullr'

Original author: Timmy Crawford

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Copyright (c) 2011 Timmy Crawford

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